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Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state / edited by Roger E. Backhouse, et al. - vi, 250 p. ; 25 cm.

Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan
1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945
Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa
2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and the British welfare state after 1945
George Peden
3. Ordoliberalism, the Social Market Economy, and Keynesianism: Germany after 1945
Harald Hagemann
4. Non-Liberal Capitalism and a Liberal Welfare Regime? Japanese economists and the welfare state before the 1980s
Tamotsu Nishizawa and Yukihiro Ikeda
Part II. Neoliberalism and the changing understanding of the welfare state
5. Neo-liberalism - from ideas to policy: some preliminary thoughts with particular reference to post-war Britain
Neil Rollings
6. New Labour and neoliberalism
Matt Beech
7. The Initiative for a New Social Market Economy and the transformation of the German welfare regime after unification? (1990)
Daniel Kinderman
8. Neo-liberalism and Market-Disciplining Policy in the Koizumi Reform in Japan
Juro Teranishi
Part III. Varieties of Neoliberalism: International Dimensions
9. National vs Supranational Collective Goods. The Birth and Death of Neoliberal Pluralism
Fabio Masini
10. Neoliberal Think Tanks and the Crisis
Dieter Plehwe
11. Concluding Remarks

ISBN: 9780190676681 (hbk)

LCCN: 2016047094

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Neoliberalism--History.
Welfare state.

Dewey Class. No.: 330.126 BAC